According to this article, the amount of men that die young thanks to lung cancer is disproportionally larger than the death to lung cancer among women. Now, this may seem sort of sad, but, consider this, there is a male/female populaiton dispairity in China thanks to the whole One Child Policy. Taking this into consideration, these death may help even out this dispairity, and, with massive amounts of death and the need to replemish the labour pool, China may finally lift up its foolish One Child Policy.

The vast majority of smokers in China are men so this is not surprising. Coupled with the fact that many provinces such as Yunnan reply primarily on tobacco for their economic gain I can see the argument you are presenting. Interesting.........